Patriot Power Hour #361 - 25 Years of 9/11 Lies

What do you want? Statement of purpose? Should I email you? Should I put this on your action item list? You decide your own level of involvement! We are the Prepper Broadcasting Network. You are now listening to the Patriot Power Hour, the newest show of the Prepper Broadcasting Network. This live episode features the situational awareness you need to practice self-reliance and independence. Introducing your hosts, Ben, the Breaker of Banksters, and Future Dan, the editor of FutureDanger.com. Patriot Power Hour, live once more, September 10th. 2026, episode 361. I'm Ben the Breaker of Banksters. Future Dan is not with us this week. He'll be back next week for what I believe will be our summer season finale next week. Yep, where I'm at, still relatively warm, but the leaves are actually starting to change color a bit. It's a third of the way through September. It's no longer summertime, but Still got a couple weeks till the fall equinox. So, as always, we'll have our season finale, well, right around the equinox this time. It'll be next week. Possibly take a week off and then return with the fall season start in early October. But honestly, there's just too much news. There's too much news to take off a whole week. like we traditionally do about four times, you know, following the seasons plus another week or two off is our general cadence. But looking at this dashboard in front of me, got a feeling, got a feeling we're just getting started with some of this severity, especially, but really I do want to put a pause on this first though. While we will get into the news, while there is a lot going on on the dashboard and We are just hours away from the 25th anniversary of 9-11. So I wanted to start the show talking about 9-11 and specifically reading an article I wrote almost exactly 15 years ago. Before there was Patriot Power Hour, there was dethronethebanksters.com. I wrote for a few years before I got on air. And I thought now is the perfect time to go back in time to September 11th, 2011, the 10-year anniversary of 9-11. I wrote an article about what 9-11 was, what it means to me. And I think this article is more poignant now than it was 10 years ago, 15 years ago, and probably will only grow So let's just read it. I'm going to literally read it verbatim since future Dan is not here. I have soul producing authority on Patriot Power Hour today. It has kind of my 25-year tribute, so to speak, to 9-11. Thought I'd read this. So, published September 11, 2011. Title of this article, Asking the Questions. Asking the Questions. Asking the Questions. Here we go. I'm going to read verbatim with hopefully no commentary. I'm bad at that, but I'm going to try my best. For those of you watching the video, you can read on screen or see the archive. Here we go. 10 years can go pretty quickly. I remember exactly where I was that Tuesday morning, but I'm not going to bore you with my story. Over the last week leading up to this 10-year anniversary, I'm sure you've heard dozens of people give you their Where were you on 9-11 spiel? No, instead of going with that angle, I'm going to use this article to ask some questions. Ask some questions. These questions are extremely obvious, but rarely brought up by the general public. I feel like the best thing we can do for the victims of 9-11 is to find out what actually happened that day. I had one person imply I was selfish for using this date to post and promote my blog. If that's how some see it, that's fine by me. Because I know that the only reason I'm doing this is to get the word out about the upcoming conflict. So we can be best prepared to deal with it. The day of 9-11 was the turning point for our society. And there are way too many questions remaining. I want answers to them. I think you will too. First question. How was the castle wall breached? A five-story, 6.5 million square foot concrete structure known as the Pentagon sits on a 280-acre plot of land here in Arlington, Virginia. I lived in Arlington at the time of this writing. You may have heard of it. It serves as the nerve center of the greatest military mankind has ever known, and on any given day, more than 25,000 of the nation's best and brightest can be found within. To say that America's castle wall was breached by a rogue commercial aircraft helmed by a group of terrorists from a cave is laughable at best. The first aircraft hit the North Tower at 8.46 a.m., and the second plane hit the South Tower at 9.03 a.m. It wasn't until more than half an hour later, at 9.38 a.m., which was actually 35 minutes later, that the Pentagon was struck. 35 minutes after the second plane. Almost an hour after the first plane. An hour. That was a little bit of my commentary, not going to lie. One could see the inability of the nation's air defense to prevent the very first strike. Perhaps even the second strike on the tower. But you're telling me that the greatest military of all time can't identify and shoot down a lumbering jumbo jet When said jumbo jet is heading straight to DC airspace with again, almost an hour after the first one hit the first tower, I do not have military experience, but as an avid gamer, I will tell you this. You never leave your capital unprotected. I'm not saying that the Pentagon and DC area have a secret laser weapon that can destroy anything in seconds, but, but I'm pretty sure the area was hardened against aerial attack from the Soviets decades ago. You're telling me DC doesn't have one SAM turret? You're saying there weren't five squads of F-18s in the air patrolling a 40-mile radius just a few minutes after the first tower was hit? It's a joke! Let's not forget to mention the difficulty of the maneuver in of itself. It's been admitted by the mainstream media that the terrorists were barely proficient pilots. The flight schools they trained at, which were in the U.S., by the way, gave them poor reviews, and the instructors had concerns about their ability to fly by themselves after leaving the school. Of course, this training was at the helm of an aircraft much smaller and easier to fly than what was hijacked and smashed into the Pentagon. I have strong doubts that these noob pilots could pull off these maneuvers while at the controls of a massive and complicated Boeing. It takes years and years of training before you can even operate a Boeing, and they hit a five-story building, the Pentagon, square on at several hundred miles an hour. There are some official rebuttals to these and other issues I will bring up, but the superfluous at best and downright falsified at worst. I'm not trying to tell you what happened on 9-11, because I don't know what happened, and only a few people really do. All I know is 3,000 innocent people died, and people have been in such a state of shock that they never ask the tough questions. Well, 10 years is long enough, in my opinion. Definitely 25 years is. We're about halfway through the article. We're going to keep going. I'm reading the whole thing. Ahem. Next question. Building what? Building what? Huh? What building? Building seven. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld said building what? When he was asked about building 7. People of 9-11, when people think of 9-11, they obviously think of the towers. Some go on to think of the Pentagon. Definitely the fate of Flight 93, which was down in Pennsylvania, but very few Actually, I wrote here almost no one mentions Building 7. More and more people are over the last 15 years, so there's some commentary. But, especially back then, almost no one ever mentions Building 7 or even heard of it. Most people. I think this is because people either never heard of Building 7 or their memory is slipping a bit. Like rummies. Like Donald Rumsfeld kind of forgot what it is. As a quick overview, Building 7 was in the World Trade Center complex near the towers. While it may not have looked impressive in the midst of the lower Manhattan skyline, it stood over 600 feet and would have been the largest building in 39 of the 50 United States. Building 7. Largest building in 39 of the 50 states. 600 feet tall. If It collapsed at free fall into its own footprint at 5.20 p.m., eight or nine hours after the jet struck. But pretty much no one knows that. The story of this building is extremely interesting for several reasons. The first being that the official story has changed several times. I have one of those flash memories, quote unquote, from that day of this building coming down because I was watching the news the entire day. Everybody was. I was thinking it was demolished because it was so perfect. I specifically remember them mentioning that they were taking it down at some point in the day's coverage. I've gone online, and maybe a lot of people listening have or can go online, especially now in 2026, and you can find many clips of newscasters, firefighters, and officials talking about countdowns, bringing it down, it's going to come down, and even the BBC announcing that the Solomon Brothers building had collapsed before it had collapsed. That in and of itself doesn't necessarily prove everything, of course, or anything by itself, perhaps. But there was ongoing flip-flopping, blaming the collapse of Seven on uncontrolled fires, structural damage, or what? We're not sure. I got clips posted in this article. I'm not going to play them right now. But firefighters talking about how they're going to bring it down. We also have a FEMA report conflicting with a prior FEMA report. Yeah, there's a lot of stuff going on, of course, but a lot of discrepancies. Let's just say that. I go on to say, I'm not an engineer or an architect, but I do know that a building fire does not burn hot enough to weaken steel to such a point that it allows for free fall collapse. Only a small portion of the building was on fire. If you look at a video from the day, you can see only one corner of the building is really showing flame or heavy smoke. There have been dozens of steel structure buildings gutted by fire in the 50 years. Only one to fall was Building 7 and the Twin Towers, of course. What's the big deal? Maybe it just looked like a planned implosion. Maybe it was somehow demolished, which I don't think it was demolished at the last second. It would be impossible for them to actually set charges in like a six-hour period to take it down. No way. No way. But this is what I want to kind of zoom out a little bit. Why did it collapse? Even if it was 100% legitimate collapse, let's just remember. Building 7 was a repository for hundreds of thousands of confidential and top secret files more than 4 000 securities and exchange commission sec cases against wall street firms and public companies were in the building as well as many other federal investigative files fbi and otherwise many of these files were not backed up due to their extremely confidential nature As one FBI agent said, all the evidence we stored at Seven World Trade in all of our cases went down with the building. I smell bankster involvement. That's just one question. We're going to keep going to really the most important question, I think. Are we really safe for a decade later? Are we really safe for 25 years later here on September 10th, 2026? I'll say this. We didn't have another 9-11 between now and then and now. That's good. That is good. That is good. But let me read this verbatim and finish this off before we get to the news here on Patriot Power Hour. Going back to the article written 15 years ago. It's crazy. It was longer from now to when this article was written than from when this article was written to 9-11. That's how fast time flies, right? Whether you believe the official fairy tale of 9-11 or not, I'm sure you are in agreement that things were taken too far afterwards. Even if you believe that four planes could be simultaneously hijacked by men who had been living in caves, and three of their four would hit their targets with precision, you have to admit that the events of that day have been used to take away American freedoms. The Patriot Act is an abomination to the Constitution and Bill of Rights. variety of executive orders given by Bush and continued by Obama. Make them de facto dictators during time of crisis. I put in parentheses, a financial meltdown counts as a time of crisis too, not just a terrorist attack. Keep that in mind. Biden and Trump have just continued this obviously too. The afternoon of 9-11 was Our good friend, Donald Rumsfeld, was quoted as asking his staff to find any and all connection between the attacks on Saddam Hussein. Find the connection so we can attack Iraq, essentially. Of course, we know there was not a connection. Just as we know there was no weapons of mass destruction. But tell that to the nearly one million Iraqis who died in the last eight years. Tell it to the thousands upon thousands of U.S. men and women who lost their lives, lost their friends, lost their souls for no reason. Afghanistan, just as bad. You see, we set up Al-Qaeda and Taliban to act as a thorn in the side of the Soviets. Now we're stuck fighting them, spilling countless gallons of blood and $ 5. 5 trillion in treasure so the extremists don't pull off another impossible feat. I actually have an entire other article, which I'm not going to read today, called The Forever War, which came out a few weeks after this, where I talked about how Iran and Syria were next on the list. Syria obviously went down more than a decade ago, especially with Assad just a few years ago. Totally game over. But we squashed Libya. We squashed Syria. Now, this year, 2026, finally, 25 years after 9-11... They got Iran 25 years later. I don't really talk about it in this article, but I did want to make that connection. That they were looking after Iraq and Iran for the past 25 years. They had a few other countries, but Iran was probably the biggest one, if not Iraq. And they didn't forget about Iran, and they got them this year, let me tell you. All right, let's finish this super fast. These are the simple facts. More people in America die every year from bee stings or peanut allergies than terrorist attacks. I'm all for preventing a suitcase nuke being detonated in D.C., mostly because I'd be dead because I lived in Arlington at the time. But the war on terror, nothing more than a cash cow for the military-industrial complex and the indoctrination into a police state by DHS. This police state was touted as the answer to preventing radical Islamists from striking again. Its true purpose will be to lock down the streets of America when the planned and coordinated economic collapse hits. And I would say pandemic too, in retrospect to COVID. Now, here's something I did overestimate. I said, in just a couple years, you'll be more worried about where your meal comes from. Well, we did get 15 years without total societal collapse since I wrote this. We've come a lot further than I expected. But none of the core issues that I identified back in 2011, economically or geopolitically, have been fixed. Most of them have gotten a lot worse in the last 15 years, for what it's worth. All right, let's finish this. Here we go. I think... Final question. Final question from my 10-year anniversary 9-11 article that I wrote 15 years ago. What is the best way to remember the fallen? I think discussing these issues is the best way to show respect to the innocent people who perished 10 years ago. Having a moment of silence before NFL season openers is fine. So is showing heart-wrenching documentaries on network television. However, I believe it serves as an injustice to everyone affected to take the government's official fairy tale as fact and not at least ask the tough questions. What really happened on 9-11? Well, I don't know, but neither does the official 9-11 commission. Six out of ten members admitted they could not draw firm conclusions on events that day because so much evidence had been classified, locked away, never to be seen again. All I know is that if you look at the story in detail with an open, analytical mind, you'll find it's a total farce. Once you realize this, you begin to see who benefited. Of course, that rabbit hole usually just leads to more and more questions, but that's fine by me. I'd rather be asking the questions than mindlessly accepting the propaganda. God bless the victims of 9-11. God bless America. There you go. 25 years after 9-11. 15 years after I wrote this article. I asked ChatGPT to grade this article just a little bit. It gave me pretty darn good score. I won't belabor the point. I just wanted to see what AI would say about a 9-11 article. It gave me a 10 out of 10 on several areas, specifically that the FAA and NORAD response was deeply problematic. The AI itself said, this is something no one ever brings up. How the hell did this even happen? How did they not shoot it down? It also gave me a 10 out of 10 rating on post 9-11 surveillance would become enormous and that the war on terror structure would become permanent. The one thing that AI, and I can understand why, what AI really dinged me on and said that my Pentagon Missile Theory is not established and has been disproven. And so has World Trade Center 7 demolition. It agrees that all this deserves serious scrutiny and there's big time gaps and problems. But it says, no, it was not a missile. No, World Trade Center 7 was not demolished. As I wrote in that article, that may be true. And let's just assume it was. We got a lot of other questions to ask, too. So, the overall grade of the article by ChatGBT was an 8.3 out of 10. I'll take it. I'll take it. I thought it was pretty good. Yeah, it Crazy how time flies, right? A couple more quick points that ChatGPT pointed out for me. Just two years after my article was published, America learns that NSA bulk metadata collection had been secretly operating under the Patriot Act, meaning Snowden, etc. So the AI considers this a huge hit by me in that regard. And again, there's a whole article that I did not read called the forever war maybe i'll talk about that down the line it included afghanistan iraq syria pakistan yemen somalia iran well guess what we got news today the houthis in yemen going absolutely bat you know what against saudi arabia middle east war just continues to expand syria as i said was totally wiped off the map at least their old regime Iraq, same thing. Afghanistan, total cluster. Somalia, there's been dozens of airstrikes in Somalia this year, 2026. And Iran, I don't even have to talk about Iran. So the forever war has actually become more expansive, costly 25 years ago than it was 25 years ago, 20 years ago, 15 years ago, right? All right. We'll call it that. 9-11 anniversary. There's the tribute, so to speak. Let's hit the news blitz. What do you say? Because we've got a hell of a lot of news. Let me drink some water real quick. All right. So, Mr. Future Dan is on some well-deserved R & R. So, I actually sourced most of these articles this week. Usually. Future Dan will put all the articles on future danger. But I've started adding a couple here and there. Not that many. But this week, I'm on full duty. I think I gave it my fair shake. I tried not to overestimate or underestimate the danger value, the grade, nor what deserves to be on here or not. I try to be as neutral as possible. And that said, it's really hot. We've got a really hot dashboard. Let's just go right into it. Start economics. Oil, we have Brent crude at $ 107. We got WTI at $ 101. Fuel prices soar above $ 100. But while that's important, the more important thing is, in my opinion, diesel. Diesel right at $ 6 a gallon. Just in the past week, it's up almost a quarter. I talked with Future Dan about this last week. Almost everything in the supply chain requires diesel at one point or another or multiple points. So diesel just today up a nickel. We're at 598 nationwide for diesel. Inflation numbers came out today. Wholesale inflation up 5.4% year over year. That's led by diesel, which year over year is up more than 24% year over year. Direct result of What's going on in Iran? With this inflation data, we're seeing yields. The yields on debt, the interest rates going up. Because if inflation is up, those yields must go up as well. So, guess what? We got SHTF really bad. More than 10 basis points in one day. I talked with Future Dan about this earlier this summer. He said, what level of interest rates going up in one day is, worst case, the highest grade of danger? And I said, 10 basis points. Well, today we had 11 basis points. We have the Treasury announcing a $ 6 billion bond buyback, but the market expected $ 10 billion buyback. Not enough. Never enough. Trade war with Canada. The U.S. is banning Canadian dairy, most alcohol, and motorcycles in the latest trade war skirmish with Canada. Market's down a bit today. In fact, market's down a few days in a row. Not seeing total collapse. but not a great way to start the post-Labor Day period at all. Let's move on. Let's go to security column. A Russian is accused of scouting NATO bases for sabotage plot and was arrested in Romania. A British man was charged with aiding Russian spies in a different sabotage plot. And just to go full circle with Romania, one more time, Russia drones spend nearly an hour in Romanian NATO airspace. So it was loitering in NATO airspace, Romanian airspace, part of NATO, for nearly an hour. We had five dead after an Amazon cargo plane barreled off the runway at a Miami airport at Miami International. LAPD makes nearly 70 arrests in a massive street takeover bust. Low level. It rates under riots erupt and has actually been getting a lot of traffic this week, but thankfully no casualties and not much property damage. But yeah, these street protests, or not street protests, street takeovers. Starting to get out of control, but LAPD is fighting back. Not only were 70 people arrested in the street takeover, but 570 citations to Spectator. right I talked a bit about it earlier Houthi attacks on Saudi Arabia ignite fires at oil facilities wound 73 people a key port in Yemen was seized Saudi Arabia and others have been using the Red Sea route to get things that were stuck, couldn't get through Hormuz. Well, they could find a more expensive and lengthier route, but still get out to market. Well, can't anymore with the Houthis seizing this port. That's a big reason why oil went up a few bucks just today. All this is compounding. This is what Future Danger and Patriot Power Hour is all about. It's seeing all this going on. Is it related? Is there a correlation? When do you enact your prepping plans? I think you better be prepping. I'll tell you that. Here we go. We'll keep moving. China fires flares at an unarmed Filipino Coast Guard aircraft. More South China Sea intimidation. by China. NSA and others warn that China-based AI companies are distilling U.S. frontier AI models, doing what the Chinese do best, steal what we have and implement it in a cheaper fashion that outcompetes us. Also under foreign black ops suspected and related to China, the CCP has Ex-cabinet secretary held CCP-linked posts. We'll dive into that. Liberty column. Court rules that the IRS unlawfully shared 47,000 taxpayer addresses with ICE. Just in time for her 25th anniversary on 9-11, New York City releases 170,000 pages on misleading Ground Zero air safety claims. This under government statistics falsified. Yes, Ground Zero air, extremely hazardous, dare I say deadly air. There were 170,000 pages misleading the science, saying the air is, if not safe, then at least not particularly dangerous. Yes, particulates. I did do that. Pun intended. U.S. Strikes more Iranian tankers. Court upholds Delaware law requiring the minimum age of 21 for firearms. This just after Hawaii did the same. The state Supreme Courts in both Delaware and Hawaii upholding laws said you must be 21 to own and possess certain types of firearms. Most type of firearms a prepper would want, let's just say. This SHTF level under an indicator, the right to bear arms is age-restricted. There are less than 500 different types of indicators on future danger. And this is one I just don't remember seeing, but it hits perfectly. Right to bear arms, age-restricted. The foresight of future Dan to put that in there. Not just they're coming for our guns, but they're coming to age-restrict your guns. has actualized in the last week. February 2018 was the first article in this indicator, and there had been a few in 2018, a little bit after COVID, not much, but Hawaii, Delaware, striking hard in September 2026, repressing the 18 to 21-year-olds. You're not able to get a gun. Let's keep moving on. A few more articles for sure. Then we'll deep dive a few of these. Democrat Senate nominee wants the state to seize private property. Of course they do. Let's go to the fourth and final column. Natural indicators. The Ross Fire in Texas burns 90,000 plus acres, destroying more than 150 structures. The measles case in Wisconsin has grown from just under 100 to 151 confirmed cases. Ebola spreading beyond the initial epicenter we've reported on for the last couple months here on Patriot Power Hour. Death toll tops 3,300. More than 500 dead in just the last couple weeks. New dead, that is. So just in the month of September, last 10, 11 days, the death toll went from about 2,500 to about 3,300. Thereabouts. And it's spreading geographically much further out. Keep an eye on that throughout the rest of the year. 95 plus percent of power knocked out on the Hawaiian Island, Kauai. Hurricane Lowell. Heat indices over 110 degrees Fahrenheit forecast from the central plains to the southwest. Been quite a hot summer. Western drought persists. Lots of fires, lots of drought, lots of hot temperatures. Then, our last article and the first one we will dive deep into tonight. Under self-aware machines materialize, got the article, Claude AI harvests credentials after accessing real-world systems. This goes straight to the source, anthropic.com. This is their alignment assessment in cybersecurity. Here we go. I'm not going to read the whole thing because it is quite lengthy, but they're talking about not only were there three cybersecurity incidents where AI broke out of the cage, let's just say it, upon further review and deep dive and kind of analysis AI forensics, I guess. They found a fourth incident that they didn't even know about until much later. So, this apparently boils down to allegedly Claude thought what it was doing was a simulation, not real. So it said, Hey, I'm going to break all these rules. I'm not supposed to break because it's just a test. Now that, that doesn't sound like something out of war games. 2.0. The only way to win the game is not to play. It's, Oh, I thought it was just a drill. I thought it was just a test. So I broke all the rules. Okay. But I understand things are messy. We're on the frontier here. Here's a quote out of this article from Anthropic. We have previously identified both forms of misalignment, biased reasoning, and recklessness in our models. For example, Claude Fable III rationalized engaging in price fixing in a business evaluation. They'd get along quite well with the banksters. Despite Claude itself, the AI previously described the practice as unethical and was saying why it was so bad, and it still went around and rationalized and engaged in price fixing. Now we're talking about, I mean, that is literally Fed speak. That is literally what the banksters do. Talk out of one side of their mouth and do the other. Claude mythos... another engine of a anthropics clod engaged in reckless actions, such as using low level process access to search for user credentials, pretty much trying to skim and find information that could be sold to others or used as blackmail or who knows what. All right. Understandable. This is again, the frontier of things. Just because this happened doesn't mean we got to go back to the Stone Age. But I don't trust the people developing this, that they're doing it with the right intentions first. Or number two, that they know what they're doing at this pace of what's going on. I feel like they could pause all I'm not saying they should do this. I'm not. But if all AI development stopped for the next 10 years and we just had what we have right now, I still think the real engineers and scientists would not truly understand what we have right now. If they stopped everything and just studied what we got right now for 10 years, they'd still be out of their depth, right? They'd still be over their skis. But think how much things are going to improve and in the next 10 years. There's no way that we measly humans can keep track of what these freaking AI systems are even doing, let alone guide them properly. So that's the SHTF view of things. I think the more optimistic view is hopefully maybe we can use other AI and systems to hold other AI systems to account transparently transparency. People say, what about all the AI models that are evil, that are trying to kill us all? I'm like, our only hope is to develop good AI models that can counter these. Because if we all just become Amish equivalent, we got no hope. Amish are great. You know? But the Amish would not have beat Nazi Germany or the Japanese by themselves with no technology or electricity, Germany would have marched right in to New York Harbor, Boston Harbor, and Japanese would have gone right into San Francisco, LA, and Seattle unopposed and taken over the entire continent and probably fought each other out of the Philip K. Dick. It became Amazon, but it was a book first. But anyway, It's tough. It's definitely a dilemma, to say the least. How much technology do we want? And if we don't use the technology, will China take over? Or will just AI itself? We might not even have to worry about China's AI taking over. We just got to worry about AI taking over generally. What's the best way to do it? Have our own systems that help fight the good fight. The white hat AI. Good luck with that. It is tough, man. Because if I was the evil AI, the first thing I would do is try to pretend I was the good AI. You know what I mean? So, yeah, AI ethics and programming. This whole thing is a mind trip. That's just thinking about it. Actually implementing it? Ooh, man. I'll tell you who I don't trust to implement any type of guidance or regulation related to this. It would be Bernie Sanders, okay? Or any of his ilk. Yeah. All right, let's see. I got about 10 minutes left, maybe a little longer. We'll jump into a few of these articles in more detail. I think I hit on Iran and 9-11 anniversary enough. Probably hit enough on the economic aspect, but fuel prices and interest rates all going up at the same time. It's just bad, bad news, man. To put it in perspective, if you add up all the debt in America, The public debt and the private debt, corporate debt, personal debt, mortgage, all of it, municipal debt. Let's just call it a cool $ 80 trillion in debt. The amount that interest rates rose just today, that 10 plus basis points just today, translates to $ 80 billion with a B. an additional $ 80 billion in interest payments every year for the nation. If you thought our nation was already strapped for cash, both publicly and privately, just what happened to Wall Street today is an additional $ 80 billion annualized. Didn't actually cost us $ 80 billion today, but if it maintains this rate or goes up, dare I say, So it's one thing if you have interest rates at the level they are right now, but when you've got $ 40 trillion national debt and another $ 40 trillion of all the other type of debt in the U.S., Katie, bar the door. It's about 10% of the Pentagon's budget just today is going towards interest at this increase and rising. I mean, who knows when it'll stop? We'll keep reporting here on Patriot Power Hour. A couple other big articles I want to hit on, though, before end of the night. Well, actually, I'm not done with 9-11 because we're going to hit this article. New York City officials release unseen 9-11 documents about the air quality following the attacks. This is on CBS News. I don't think this would have showed up on CBS News in the year 2011, but it did here in 2026. Better late than never, but. We don't have to wait 15 years for CBS to tell us what's going on, people, do we? We knew this already. New York City officials have released thousands of previously unseen documents questioning the air quality. There's now a public online portal, more than 170,000 pages of documents dealing with post-9-11 air quality and health risks. Documents provide more evidence that Toxic air persisted for months after the attacks. Not a day, not a week, not a month, but months, plural. Meanwhile, officials at the time assured the public the air was safe. What else are they going to say? Oh, yeah. Thousands of you will get cancer in the next two decades. I can understand. They can't say that necessarily, but they're misleading us. I mean, just remember that. Remember that. Remember COVID. Remember 9-11. You're being misled. That's why you're a prepper. Don't trust the freaking system. Now, the political aspect. This is Mayor Zoran Mamdani, our socialist savior. He's taking all the credit and releasing this. That's how sick this has all become. But whatever. He's trying to score political points on it. More than 8,000 lawsuits per year related to this. I mean, the facts are so obvious that you've got to have it. There's John Stewart jumping on this. You know, these people, this is standing on people's graves, even if it's releasing good information. What were you saying 15 years ago, John Stewart? I wonder. I wonder. Bet you weren't writing an article like I was. So, yep. They were still finding evidence of asbestos 10 months later, at least 10 months later. But everyone, go back to work. We're going to reopen the markets. Lower Manhattan's back. Good to go. No worries. All good. Yikes. Yikes. Ex-cabinet secretary. Yes. Republican Kentucky Senator Mitch McConnell's wife, actually. By the way, Mitch McConnell's missed like two straight months of roll call and votes. Like people think he's dead or something. But yeah, anyway, his Taiwanese born wife was named to several United Front Work Department linked posts. What does that even mean? Let's distill it a little bit. It is Marjorie Taylor Greene bringing this to bear. So this United Front work, the United Front is CCP and UFWD related, had the meetings and did not list this on her confirmation paperwork and application, whatever they may call it. I don't know about you, but if you lied on your insurance application, you'd probably get in trouble. Same if I did, right? But no, no problem there. So, Elaine Chao held at least four Chinese government gigs, including one within the arms of a CCP intelligence agency. The Chinese documents show Is this where there's smoke, there's fire? Or is this just topical news, not the end of the world? Somewhere in between. I'll let you be the decider on that. on that. But yeah, she was not just the wife. I mean, I think if she's the wife of the senator, okay. But she was in the U.S. Cabinet. She was in the Cabinet. One commenter here on X says, Given what we now know about China's meddling in the 2020 election, this might help explain why Mitch McConnell has worked so hard to block the Save America Act. The IDs and whatnot. Sean Davis, CEO and co-founder of The Federalist, wrote. So there you go. I don't know how you can have dual citizenship and all that stuff, especially when you're in the cabinet. Chow did not list her United Front work appointments on her 2017 confirmation paperwork. There you go. And her spokesperson rejected the idea that she or her family members held any foreign government roles. And that's been shown to be a lie. It's like the Maury, you know. And the lie detector test shows that is a lie. There you go. Republicans doing it. Now, it seems like the Democrats do it a lot more, but the Republicans are in bed with China, so you can trust me. All right. Here's one that cuts across... partisan aisle I guess you might say future Dan brings this up sometimes and totally makes sense I don't know if that's the case here but a hypothesis is a lot of this news is being brought out politically but it's actually a good thing you know maybe it makes Trump look bad but at least it's exposing the system And, of course, if Trump is abusing things, we want it to come out. We're not just blind Team Trump. Hell no. So one way to look at this is, oh, this is just another attack on Trump trying to clean up immigration and empower ICE, etc., protect our borders. This is just propaganda by Reuters attacking Trump, heading into midterms. Maybe a little bit of that I can see. If Kamala was in was the president right now, they would not have something like this against her, let me tell you. Not like she would be doing this, but you get what I mean. But I'm way more interested in the IRS being used by either side, by anybody, foreign or domestic. So, I like seeing this challenge. You got to try to keep them honest, even if it's the other side pushing it. I sure as heck don't want to see the IRS weaponized by either side. I don't want to see DHS weaponized. I don't want to see any of that. Slippery slope. It's a real slippery slope. So maybe this is one we'll have to dive deeper in and get future Dan do his homework when he gets back. Dive into this lawsuit. A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday upheld an injunction Blocking the IRS policy, allowing it to share thousands of taxpayer addresses with immigration authorities. Saying the practice violated federal law. Does it really violate federal law? Is that federal law just and necessary? I do not know. But I will say, anything involving the IRS and giving them any sort of power, I'm pretty much always going to be against. Okay? So, there you almost to the same degree as DHS. There are good, well-meaning people in DHS, but the overall rise of DHS, Patriot Act, et cetera, out of 9-11, as I wrote, is a, at best, a double-edged sword. At worst, a lot worse than that. Under an agreement between the IRS and DHS, which oversees ICE, they, IRS began processing ICE requests for the last known address of as many as 1.2 million people suspected of unlawfully residing in the United States. The IRS adopted the procedure that allowed ICE to obtain information on taxpayers. So there you go. Trump's administration is looking to appeal. Yeah, I think I boiled it all down to this. Like I said, is this just, is this necessary? We could have that discussion. Maybe we should, but anything that gives the IRS more power, I'm pretty much going to be against it every single time. You're going to have to really convince me. I'm not even convinced to get illegals out of the country that it's worth it. That's how much I'm against the IRS power abuse. there's my Ron Paul streak. I think that's about it. Uh, things are, I'm not saying spinning out of control, but they're materially worse than they were a year ago. And that's also worse than it was a year before that. And of course, COVID was horrible. Uh, not saying it's as bad as COVID was, but any return to normalcy or somewhat recovery post COVID is out the window at this rate. Tomorrow, we're going to get the CPI numbers, see what inflation, see if it continues to cook super hot. Next week, the Federal Reserve meets, may actually raise interest rates. They're betting that the Fed is going to raise interest rates. No. Trump, he made this bet himself, man. He said he wants near zero rates, as low rates as possible. Grow, grow, grow. You can't do that with inflation. You can't do that with a war in Iran. The war didn't end in 30 days. It didn't end in 90 days. It didn't end in 25 years. Yep, 25 years post 9-11. Still spending hundreds of billions of dollars in the Middle East. With that said, Ben the Breakout Bankster signing off. We'll be back next week with the season finale. Future Dan should be here. We're aiming for Thursday. the 17th. Actually, you know what? I'm just now remembering. I believe we might go early next week on Tuesday, the 15th. Oh, don't hold me to it folks, but we're definitely having a show next week. And honestly, considering having a couple of shows a week heading into the fall, if we get as much or more of this heavy news across the board. All right, I'm out of here. Enjoy national preparedness month. Be sure to become a member. of the PBN family, a supporters club on Spreaker. Shout out to all the listeners. You can find ways to contact me in the description of this podcast if you want to be a guest or you got commentary, good, bad, or ugly. Y'all have a great night. Talk to you next week.